Key Takeaways From Alphabet's Google Cloud Next Event

Google, at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, unveiled a new technology where it will use machine learning to identify objects in videos.

It was a natural fit for the company to build its new cloud environment around Google Cloud Platform, as it now uses a variety of Google services, Günther Oberhofer, head of networks and communications at Conrad Electronic SE, explains. The team from Mountain View has shared its Cloud Video Intelligence API, which can visually recognize specific search terms within videos.

Google now lags in the cloud market, with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure taking the lead with big customers, but the technology giant aims to change that through the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) which allows customers to leverage its machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities.

But if Google can find practical applications for whiz-bang features like the Video API demo it showed today, it might find itself allowed into the next soirée.

However, if a company needs a more unique solution, they would have to build a custom system using TensorFlow and the Cloud Machine Learning engine.

It also made a slew of announcements further strengthening its place as the leader in machine learning and artificial intelligence platforms.

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Kaggle was launched in 2010 and now has about half a million data scientists on its platform. While SAP already started integrating cloud technologies into its portfolio in recent years, its new partnership with Google will provide the company with a way to do so in a rapid manner.

"Google Cloud partners are essential to our commitment to help enterprises innovate faster, scale smarter and stay secure", said Bertrand Yansouni, vice president of global partner sales and strategic alliances and Google Cloud, in a blog post ahead of Google Cloud's Next conference. Google is widely considered the number three player in the cloud and a relative late-comer, trailing Amazon and Microsoft-a distant number two. Just imagine! Or, rather, just search for them.

The relationship addresses the upswing of public cloud solutions. Toward that end, they plan to launch a software development kit for programmers later this month.

"I think big data is so powerful that nation stats will fight over how much data matters", he told attendees.

Nowitzki couldn't miss in the first half when he hit the baseline jumper over Larry Nance Jr . and the Los Angeles Lakers. Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James was among the first to congratulate him on the achievement.

One or more poachers reportedly broke into the enclosure overnight where three rhinos were housed, Le Parisien reported . Vince was born at Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands in 2012, and was transferred to the Thoiry Zoo in March 2015.

While she was still at university, her mother was killed by a bullet meant for her father, shot by a North Korean sympathizer. South Korea's impeached president, Park Geun-hye, is due to find out whether she will be permanently removed from office.

Fierce gun battles, artillery strikes and fires rocked the town, prompting thousands to flee south or over the border into China. China is providing humanitarian assistance and working to stabilize the region, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Murray did not take much time as he won the match in straight sets - 6-3, 6-2 - with the final lasting for 73 minutes only. Mladenovic made it into her second final of the year, holding off fifth-seeded American Christina McHale 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.

In greater Lafayette, women held "walkouts" at three locations, accommodating women who couldn't strike for the entire day. This is the second major demonstration of social activism organized by the group behind the Women's March on Washington .

A source told Page Six on March 8: "They have been seeing each other for a few weeks, and were together in LA this past weekend". However, the feelings may not be quite so reciprocal, in that Rodriguez has let to like any of Lopez' Instagram posts.

Unfortunately, it appears that the company didn't have the means to make a dent in India's cutthroat smartphone market. In the email sent to his employees, Jia wrote "We blindly sped ahead, and our cash demand ballooned".

They were stranded outside overnight, mere steps away from one of their homes, in temperatures that fell to 13 degrees Fahrenheit. The Providence Journal reported that Haley lived at 21 Opechee Drive, Barrington, and Williams lived in East Providence.

It is now on course to surpass the Netherlands' modern-era record of 26 years of consecutive growth between 1982 and 2008. Emily Dabbs, an economist at Moody's Analytics, said the quarterly growth has perhaps seen its golden period.

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